Lord Palmerston: the people’s champion
He may have become Prime Minister 150 years ago, but Lord Palmerston was, in many respects, a truly 21st-century politician. He was a vocal champion of liberty and adept at keeping the popular press onside. Yet, above all, Palmerston knew how to gauge public opinion and use it to his advantage, as Terry Jenkins explains
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